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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE H. BUTLER, GEORGE W. EARHART, AND WILLIAM M. ORAXVFORD, OFCOLUMBUS, OHIO.

B RETZEL-CUTTER.

SPEGIFICATJ ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,264, dated March20, 1883.

- Application filed July 6, 1882. (Model.)

FORD, composing the firm ot' BUTLER, EAR- HAit'rSt (30., citizens of theUnited States, re-

siding at Olumbus,in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bretzel-Outters; and wedo declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part.

. of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in molds or dies for stampingor cutting out bretzels, having for itsobject more especially to causethe product or bretzel to have the appearance of a hand-made bretzel;and it consists in the peculiar construction of the mold or die toeffect this result, and other details of construction, substantially ashereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of our improvedbretzel die or mold. Fig. 2 is a side view, partly broken away, thereof.Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailed plan view of the die proper. Figs. 4 and5 are sectional views, taken respectively on the lines 00 x and y y ofFig. 3. Fig. 6 is a view of the product or bretzel of our die.

that is,

In carrying out our invention we construct the die A after the fashionor configuration of the ordinary bretzel in its general shape-' as moreclearly shown in Fig. 3.

For the purpose of this specification we will describe the channel orgroove constituting the bretzel-die as consisting of a how or anapproximately heart-shaped portion, a, with its meeting portions aextended so as to cross each other, as at a The underlapped portion isfurther extended, as at a said extension crossing or overlapping anextension, at, of the previously overlapped portion a The extensions a aare projected into the body of the bow a. At a the creaser of one arm ofthe groove or channel is extended,as at a across its other arm andunited to 64?, while the creaser a is extended on one side, as at a",across a. The ends of a a project into the how a and terminate increasersa This construction enables the creasing of the product orbretzel at the points above detailed, which imparts to the die-madebretzel the appearance of having been made by hand, or a naturalappearance.

The die'A may be used, as shown, in connection with means to permit itsmanipulation by hand, which consists of a base,B, through which it. isadapted to move or operate, the

guides or uprights O, the top plate, D, and the sliding hand-piece E.The uprights or guides O are fixed to the base B and to the plate D.

Around the plate I) and the guides slides the hand-piece E, cushionedpreferably upon helical springs b, secured upon the base B. F F are theexpelling -studs, secured plate, D, and to the base B, below which theyextend a short distance, and through coincident apertures distributedthroughout the die A. The die is fixed to the vertically-sliding box orhand-piece E. When the hand-piece Eis pressed downward the operation ofcutting or stamping out the bretzel from the dough will be performed.Upon the rising of the die, efiected automatically by the spring, thestuds, whoselower ends, as above stated, project a short distance belowthe die in its elevated position, will expel the plastic bretzel fromthe die should it have a tendency to adhere or stick to it.

The die can also be readily applied as well to a cylindrical surface asto other surfaces, and used in any number desired. Cams or othersuitable devices may be employed in lieu of the hand for operating thedies.

' \Ve are aware that the form of the creasers can be changed withoutdeparting from the principle of our invention.

The product of the die herein shown'is notherein claimed, as it will bemade the subjectmatter of a subsequent application.

The cutter herein shown is adapted, by means of the feet or projectionsb on the base B, to be moved upon a flat surface and over the dough, andto cut from the same bretzels, which being left upon a flat surfaceafter cutting are not so liable to become misshaped as when out byrotary cutters, as heretofore, anti by the additional creasers a a andthe. novel creasers a a perfect semblance to a to the top 70 hand-madetwisted bretzel is produced, while the creaser heretofore used, as a,does not produce the desired result.

Each die has three ofl-bearing scrap=passages, (1 which pick up theinternal scraps and deliver them into the box or hand-piece E.

It will be observed that our dies form two kinds of scraps-to wit,connected scraps and internal scrapsf the latter being picked up by thedies, and after passing through the channels a are delivered into theboxjE or' other suitable receiver.

We are aware that it is not new to cut 1oz enges by means of a platehaving a series of tubes which cut the lozenges leaving a connectedscrap, the lozenges being carried upward in the tubes; also, that it isold to cut bretzels by means of dies which at once deliver the internalscraps, as they are out, into one of the cylinders which carry the dies.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. A flatdie for cutting bretzels, having the bowa,the1oops a a, the intermediate twisted;

portion, and the endsa a, and provided with the central creaser, a, theside creasers, a a and the end creasers, a a projecting into the bow a,substantially as shown and described.

2. In a bretzel-cutter, the combination of 0 the die A, perforated, asdescribed, for the reception and passage of the scraps and for theexpellingstuds F, with said studs, the guide-rods O, the base 13,provided with feet or projections I), the springs b, perforated plate D,and the hand-piece E, substantially as shown and described.

3. A flat bretzel-shaped die having three ofi'-beari ng internal scrappassages or channels, and perforations for the expelling-studs, incombination with the expelling-studs, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

THEODORE H. BUTLER. GEORGE W. EABHART. WILLIAM M. CRAWFORD,

Witnesses:

CHAS, R. THOMPSON, R. B; SMITH."

